AeroSandbox Aircraft Design & Engineering

Aircraft design optimization made fast through computational graph transformations (e.g., automatic differentiation). Composable analysis tools for aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, trajectory design, and much more.

What AeroSandbox does

Aircraft design optimization made fast through computational graph transformations (e.g., automatic differentiation). Composable analysis tools for aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, trajectory design, and much more. It is a free, open-source project hosted at peterdsharpe/AeroSandbox and released under the MIT licence.

Download and install

1. Get the files. Use Download releases above if the maintainers publish binaries, otherwise grab the source ZIP or git clone https://github.com/peterdsharpe/AeroSandbox.git.
2. Read the README. Build and runtime requirements differ per platform — the repo README is the authoritative guide.
3. Check the licence. MIT terms apply to redistribution and commercial use.
4. Join the community. Issues, discussions and pull requests live in the repository — that is where bugs get fixed.

Project snapshot

• Repositorypeterdsharpe/AeroSandbox
• Stars1,364
• Forks208
• LanguageJupyter Notebook
• LicenceMIT
• Last update2026-10-07
• Topics3d-panelaerodynamic-analysisaerodynamicsaerospaceaerospace-engineeringaircraft

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